Reuters Three weeks ago, Palestinian film-maker Hamdan Ballal stood in front of the world’s cameras in Hollywood, picking up an Oscar for best documentary film. The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked awkwardly away in bloodstained clothes after almost 24 hours in Israeli detention. The...
On 24 March, Israeli far-right Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked and lynched Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning No Other Land. Occupation soldiers then abducted him from the ambulance that had come to treat him for his injuries. Hamdan Ballal: lynched and abducted At the time of writing, there had been “no...
A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after the documentary he co-directed on the violence of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, No Other Land, won an Oscar. According to his co-director Yuval Abraham and witnesses, per Haaretz, Ballal called an ambulance after settlers attacked him but was...